Mentally Handicapped Children (Special Schools)

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what is the number of children in schools in Scotland who are classified as educationally sub-normal; and whether he will publish a table indicating their dispersal, county by county.

The total number of mentally handicapped children attending special schools—including occupational centres—at January, 1964, the latest date for which full figures are available, was 8,131. Details are given in the following table: